Laboratory experiments on mesoscale vortices colliding with an island chain

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Tanabe, Aya ^a   Cenedese, Claudia ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

ANTICYCLONE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BIFURCATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MESOSCALE MOTION; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL CURRENT; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CARIBBEAN SEA; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 46849098195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004322     Document Type: Article

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